Palm oil: how our consumer choices affect wildlife

Your shampoo, your ice cream, your margarine, your lipstick -- all contain palm oil. Demand is still growing, as are oil palm plantations... but at what price to tropical forests and the biodiversity found there? Read more: http://wwf.panda.org/lpr

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[abatoastbrot]

wwf doesnt save our rainforests in indonesia and malaysia. neither does it save the animals living there. the wwf actually works together with companies that destroy these rainforests, giving them a green alibi of "sustainable cultivation" of oil palms to make profit. THERE IS NO SUSTAINABLE CULTIVATION OF OIL PALMS. IT DOESNT EXIST!

inform yourself about wwf, its a profit based and cruel organization!

instead of giving them money, stop demanding palm oil!

[MrJNdlovu]

Well said! Society is f***ed up! Human Over population is a serious concern that should be taken seriously and addressed by governments worlwide especially in countries that are growing at an exponential rate. At the rate we are growing there will be barely any forests left in 30 years time with the current rate! Greedy multi national companies are all about profit and environmental destruction!

[D.M.B. J.]

I love Nestle Chocolate Chips and Maltesers. Since they are hard to come by in Turkiye, where I live, I would buy outrageous amounts of both products whenever I was abroad. I also found out that most junk food contain palm oil. Since I'm not fat, there was never an incentive to stop eating junk food. But since I discovered what palm oil plantations do to orangutans' and tigers' habitat, I stopped eating junk food, including Maltesers and Chocolate Chips. I always read labels at the supermarket.

[LetsTalkChoices]

you should read this article cspinet.org/palm/PalmOilReport­.pdf

[LetsTalkChoices]

When I say Countries that have a history of using palm oil I mean countries that have palm tress as part of their natural resource.

[LetsTalkChoices]

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[LetsTalkChoices]

agreed. us consumers should stop buy palm oil products.

[LetsTalkChoices]

For many, Eco is a branding scheme. Many times organic and Eco products are more expensive but when you look at the ingredients list they still have alot of bad ingredients and preservatives.

However! Companies that actually care may also have a higher price on their products because they did take the time and effort to do their research to only use sustainable cruelty free ingredients.

We should think about why some products are so cheap! They are getting their ingredients unsustainably.

[LetsTalkChoices]

The WWF, Greenpeace and other "tree hugging fairies" are doing their part to bring awareness and it benefits people who haven't thought about topics such as these!